Ward Whitt

31.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
411 papers, 22.0k citations indexed

About

Ward Whitt is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Ward Whitt has authored 411 papers receiving a total of 22.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 337 papers in Management Information Systems, 196 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 116 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Ward Whitt's work include Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (336 papers), Probability and Risk Models (150 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (86 papers). Ward Whitt is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (336 papers), Probability and Risk Models (150 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (86 papers). Ward Whitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Ward Whitt's co-authors include Joseph Abate, Peter W. Glynn, William A. Massey, Gagan L. Choudhury, Donald L. Iglehart, Kotikalapudi Sriram, S. Halfin, D. J. Daley, Dietrich Stoyan and Anja Feldmann and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Ward Whitt

404 papers receiving 20.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Queueing Network Analyzer

1983 756 citations Ward Whitt profile →
Comparison Methods for Queues and Other Stochastic Models.

1986 734 citations Ward Whitt et al. profile →
Stochastic-Process Limits

2002 692 citations Ward Whitt profile →
Characterizing Superposition Arrival Processes in Packet Multiplexers for Voice and Data

1986 571 citations Ward Whitt et al. profile →
Heavy-Traffic Limits for Queues with Many Exponential Servers

1981 519 citations Ward Whitt et al. Operations Research profile →
The Fourier-series method for inverting transforms of probability distributions

1992 513 citations Joseph Abate, Ward Whitt Queueing Systems profile →
A Unified Framework for Numerically Inverting Laplace Transforms

2006 370 citations Joseph Abate, Ward Whitt profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	On Gaussian Markov processes and Polya processes 2023 ·Operations Research Letters ·Kerry Fendick, Ward Whitt	2
2	Heavy traffic limits for queues with non-stationary path-dependent arrival processes 2022 ·Queueing Systems ·Kerry Fendick, Ward Whitt	5
3	Forecasting arrivals and occupancy levels in an emergency department 2019 ·Operations Research for Health Care ·Ward Whitt, Xiaopei Zhang	51
4	Using simulation to study service-rate controls to stabilize performance in a single-server queue with time-varying arrival rate 2015 ·Winter Simulation Conference ·(unknown), Ward Whitt	3
5	STAFFING TO STABILIZE BLOCKING IN LOSS MODELS WITH TIME-VARYING ARRIVAL RATES 2015 ·Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences ·(unknown), Ward Whitt, (unknown)	11
6	Delay predictors for customer service systems with time-varying parameters 2010 ·Winter Simulation Conference ·R.N. Ibrahim, Ward Whitt	1
7	Real‐Time Delay Estimation Based on Delay History in Many‐Server Service Systems with Time‐Varying Arrivals 2010 ·Production and Operations Management ·R.N. Ibrahim, Ward Whitt	35
8	What you should know about queueing models to set staffing requirements in service systems 2007 ·Naval Research Logistics (NRL) ·Ward Whitt	54
9	THE IMPACT OF DELAY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN MANY-SERVER QUEUES WITH ABANDONMENT: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 2006 ·Mor Armony, Nahum Shimkin, Ward Whitt	9
10	Calculating transient characteristics of the erlang loss model by numerical transform inversion 1998 ·Communications in Statistics Stochastic Models ·(unknown), Ward Whitt	21
11	An algorithm to compute blocking probabilities in multi-rate multi-class multi-resource loss models 1995 ·Advances in Applied Probability ·Gagan L. Choudhury, Kin K. Leung, Ward Whitt	60
12	Calculation of the GI/G/1 waiting-time distribution and its cumulants from Pollaczek's formulas 1993 ·Joseph Abate, Gagan L. Choudhury, Ward Whitt	30
13	A probabilistic generalization of Taylor's theorem 1993 ·Statistics & Probability Letters ·William A. Massey, Ward Whitt	27
14	A review ofL=?W and extensions 1991 ·Queueing Systems ·Ward Whitt	93
15	Simple spectral representations for the M/M/1 queue 1988 ·Queueing Systems ·Joseph Abate, Ward Whitt	19
16	Approximating a Point Process by a Renewal Process, I: Two Basic Methods 1982 ·Operations Research ·Ward Whitt	410
17	On the heavy-traffic limit theorem forGI/G/∞ queues 1982 ·Advances in Applied Probability ·Ward Whitt	79
18	A priori bounds for approximations of Markov programs 1979 ·Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications ·Ward Whitt	2
19	Weak convergence of first passage time processes 1971 ·Journal of Applied Probability ·Ward Whitt	28
20	Weak convergence of first passage time processes 1971 ·Journal of Applied Probability ·Ward Whitt	8

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